X-Git-Url: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=INSTALL;h=5fa900b190dfde0e569c100c1a03080a0b921d11;hp=943a8a467a32790118d46042c1b28b260b96074e;hb=43d5c5f03645c4b842659f9b5bd0ae465e885e92;hpb=e3c14a7ff3931e4c09711966e3a82fd8f98e568a diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 943a8a467..5fa900b19 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -1,35 +1,44 @@ -Usual options for udev installed in the root filesystem are: - ./configure \ +The options used used usually look like: + %configure \ --prefix=/usr \ --sysconfdir=/etc \ - --sbindir=/sbin \ + --bindir=/usr/bin \ --libdir=/usr/lib64 \ - --with-rootlibdir=/lib64 \ - --libexecdir=/lib/udev \ + --libexecdir=/usr/lib/udev \ + --with-systemdsystemunitdir=/usr/lib/systemd/system \ --with-selinux -The options used in a RPM spec file usually look like: +The options used in a RPM spec file look like: %configure \ --prefix=%{_prefix} \ --sysconfdir=%{_sysconfdir} \ - --sbindir=/sbin \ + --bindir=%{_bindir} \ --libdir=%{_libdir} \ - --with-rootlibdir=/%{_lib} \ + --libexecdir=%{_prefix}/lib/udev \ + --with-systemdsystemunitdir=%{_prefix}/lib/systemd/system \ + --with-selinux + +The options to install udev in the rootfs instead of /usr, +and udevadm in /sbin: + --prefix=%{_prefix} \ + --with-rootprefix= \ + --sysconfdir=%{_sysconfdir} \ + --bindir=/sbin \ + --libdir=%{_libdir} \ + --with-rootlibdir=/lib64 \ --libexecdir=/lib/udev \ + --with-systemdsystemunitdir=/lib/systemd/system \ --with-selinux +Some tools expect udevadm in 'sbin'. A symlink to udevadm in 'bin' +needs to be manually created if needed. + The defined location for scripts and binaries which are called -from rules is /lib/udev/ on all systems and architectures. Any +from rules is (/usr)/lib/udev/ on all systems and architectures. Any other location will break other packages, who rightfully expect -the /lib/udev/ directory, to install their rule helper and udev +the (/usr)/lib/udev/ directory, to install their rule helper and udev rule files. -It is possible to use the /lib/udev/devices/ directory to place -device nodes, directories and symlinks, which are copied to /dev/ -at every bootup. That way, nodes for devices which can not be -detected automatically, or are activated on-demand by opening the -pre-existing device node, will be available. - Default udev rules and persistent device naming rules may be required by other software that depends on the data udev collects from the devices.